Microsites can deliver a more engaging worship experience produced in-the-round, with a worship team and group of worshipers in a more “jam session” style, making viewers feel like they are in the room.

Microsites provide a more engaging alternative compared to the traditional teaching format, one that is much more appealing to millennials and more “relational” boomers.

Microsites are small venue gatherings that are volunteer-led, video-driven extensions of an outreaching church that could be a feeder strategy for a multisite campus or a church plant.

Microsites could be the 10x factor that multisites were to the single campus strategy.

Microsites can be a powerful compliment and natural “next step” to your current multisite strategy, but could also be your “first step” into a multisite ministry for a church of any size, ranging from 100 to 10,000. This allows a church to “grow rather than go” into a multisite church strategy.

In a sense, a micro-site completes the church life cycle that started as a mini-site (small church), that became a mega-site through multiple services, that became a multi-site though multiple locations, that now can become a movement-making church through micro-sites! The model gets the best of the big church resources with production and teaching with the intimacy of a smaller venue.

Building on the learnings and integration of small group principles and multisite best practices, this approach has the potential of multiplying a church further, faster and cheaper than our current models.

MultiSite Solutions has teamed up with the small group video specialists at Lifetogether to assist churches in developing and delivering a microsite strategy. We are introducing a new Microsite Coaching Program for churches wanting to turn this vision into a reality.

Here’s my conversation about microsites with Brett Eastman, the founder and president of Lifetogether. Brett served as the Small Group Champion for both Willow Creek and Saddleback Church and over the past 15 years has partnered with hundreds of the largest and fastest-growing churches across America in producing churchwide campaigns and video curriculum like 40 Days of Purpose.

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"Jim came along side Celebration Church from the very beginning of our multi-site journey. His insight, strategy, and understanding of what it takes to be a healthy church was huge to us as we began this new journey. Since partnering with Jim, we’ve gone from one church meeting in a single location, to five campuses meeting throughout Wisconsin."

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SENIOR PASTOR - CELEBRATION CHURCH, GREEN BAY, WI

"If the Holy Spirit is in it, Jim and his team can help you develop a plan to that honors God and everyone involved."

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LEAD PASTOR - NORTHVIEW CHURCH CARMEL, IN

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